OPC UA over TSN
Uniform communication standard in the IoT
OPC UA over TSN will become the uniform communication standard in the Industrial IoT. The standardization and further development of OPC UA for the field level will take place under the umbrella of the OPC Foundation. This fulfills a long-standing wish of the market: There is a manufacturer-independent and interface-free solution for communication in industry.
B&R is one of the key players in the initiative to develop and standardize OPC UA over TSN for communication at controller and field level. The company plays a leading role in the involved standardization organizations OPC Foundation, IEC/IEEE and VDMA. B&R also actively participates in testbeds such as the Industrial Internet Consortium. "We ensure that machine builders and operators will benefit from harmonized communication in the industry as soon as possible," says Stefan Schönegger, Vice President Strategy and Innovation at B&R. The parent company ABB has also been accepted onto the board of the OPC Foundation.
Communicate up to 18 times faster
In future, OPC UA over TSN will enable plug-and-produce-capable networks that are easy to administer and configure. At the same time, network participants will be able to communicate up to 18 times faster than with all protocols currently available on the market. Among other things, this opens up new possibilities in the area of highly synchronous drive applications and control tasks.
OPC UA over TSN will also meet the requirements of future IoT applications. The technology allows several 10,000 nodes in a network and benefits from bandwidth expansions of the Ethernet standard, so that even large amounts of data remain manageable - for example in integrated vision applications.
IT and OT merge
OPC UA enables fully integrated and transparent communication from the sensor to the cloud. IT and OT merge into a common network and thus form the basis for all applications in the Industrial IoT. As both OPC UA and the Ethernet extension TSN are managed and further developed by independent organizations, OPC UA over TSN is a completely manufacturer-independent protocol. "Machine builders and operators are no longer dependent on individual providers for communication," explains Schönegger.
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